Two Miami Gardens men, Emerson Callum and Lavont Flanders Jr., have been arrested for drugging woman, engaging in forced sex acts with them, videotaping the acts, and then selling the videos. Both were similarly charged in 2007, but those claims were dropped just weeks ago…
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Jared Cano, 17, has been arrested after law enforcement officials uncovered a plot to blow up his Tampa high school. Tampa Police Chief Janet Castor said the alleged plan could have been “a potential catastrophic event the likes of which this city has never seen.”Cano might have been trying to outdo the…
We’re not sure what kind of grown man gets into a heated public argument with a random 12-year-old boy. We’re certainly not sure what kind of man then decides it’s a good idea to end the argument by pulling out a knife and stabbing the child. All we know is…
When Al Golden was plucked from college football obscurity as head coach of the Temple Owls to take over the Miami Hurricanes, a storied program that needed just a bit of fine tuning to be competitive again, it seemed like — pardon the pun — a Golden opportunity. Now, if…
If lesbians can’t even keep it classy in Florida, there really is no hope for our state’s weird-news reputation.Jantavia Taylor was arrested for felony domestic assault after allegedly trying to beat up her live-in girlfriend with a strap-on dildo. No, we don’t mean “beat up” in any sort of slang…
Convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro may have just killed the University of Miami football program. (And men’s basketball program, but, really, who cares about that?) Yahoo! Sports reporter Charles Robinson just published a report detailing Shapiro’s involvement in paying and providing impermissible benefits to players.The report is 11 months in…
So a man crashed his pickup truck into a Waffle House after trying to run over his wife. Of course, it happened in Florida. And, of course, it happened in Panama City Beach, the crown jewel of the Redneck Riviera. PCB, baby!…
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Because the race for Florida’s Republican Senate nomination is wide open, there’s room for just about anyone to get in the race. Heck, according to the latest Q poll, some guy named Mike McCallister is leading the pack. Anything is possible. So meet the latest entrant into the fray: Marielena…
Though he announced his retirement last week, former Miami Dolphin Channing Crowder says he is open to returning to the game next season after the birth of his first child. Don’t expect the Fins to come calling. Bridges have been burned. He ripped both quarterback Chad Henne and general manager Jeff…
A 15-year-old boy from Coral Gables was shot and killed this morning in Boynton Beach after he stole a BMW with two friends and drove to Palm Beach County looking for homes to burglarize. The victim was accidentally shot by a friend who was playing with a gun in the…
After news broke yesterday that the NCAA would question the University of Miami about gifting allegations made by convicted Ponzi schemer Nevin Shaprio, initial reports indicated the school didn’t think the NCAA would be able to find enough evidence to prove anything. Well, now coach Al Golden, who was hired long…
Though guys like George LeMieux and Adam Hasner have for months been running for the GOP nomination to take on Senator Bill Nelson, no one has made much headway with voters. That leaves the field wide open for a potential late entrant. Rep. Adam West, Florida’s most Tea-soaked new congressman, might be…
Zachery Tims’ body was found at the luxury hotel in Times Square.
Five teacup puppies, valued at a total of $4,100 and countless immeasurable units of adorableness, were snatched from the Puppy Dream pet store on Bird Road this weekend. The store’s cameras caught an unidentified woman committing the unspeakable crime of grand theft cute…
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After disappointing attempts at mixed martial arts and professional wrestling, Miami’s back-yard brawling sensation Kimbo Slice might have finally found his professional punch-throwing niche: boxing. Sure, the competition was considerably low-level, but over the weekend Slice made his boxing debut and knocked his opponent out in 17 seconds flat. Watch…
The machines are taking over the cafeteria. Starting this fall, some Miami-Dade students will be getting their school lunch from a vending machine and not Berta, the hairnet-clad lunch lady. Rest assured though, Junior won’t be eating just corn chips and soda pop. The high tech machines serve healthy options…
Fidel Castro turned 85 this past Saturday, and the celebrations were mostly typical. Supporters held a giant concert featuring dozens of musical acts, but Castro himself spent the day in seclusion, which prompted rumors he might have been too feeble for a public appearance. Miami exiles, meanwhile, marked his birthday…
Last year, New Times chronicled the rise and fall of flashy Miami Beach Ponzi schemer Nevin Shapiro. The man who had donated more than $150,000 to the University of Miami football program now sits in jail on a 20-year sentence. He has been threatening since April 2010 to pen a…
Lest you think Miami Dolphins fans were being overdramatic in their disappointment that the team couldn’t get a starting quarterback better than Chad Henne, we now have cold, hard rankings to back our whining. USA Today ranked all 32 teams’ starting quarterbacks, and Henne came in 31st out of 32…
